Ausschreibungsagenten Tender Search

What Ausschreibungsagenten Tender Search does

The Ausschreibungsagenten Tender Search MCP server exposes a read-only index of public procurement notices to MCP-compatible AI clients. Its coverage spans 17 connected sources in Germany, the European Union and the United Kingdom, including TED, German federal and regional portals, GB Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. Coverage is not guaranteed to be complete, so results should be checked against the linked authoritative notice.

The service fits workflows such as finding construction opportunities in a country, locating IT notices before a deadline, reviewing an individual procedure, or checking whether connected procurement portals are current. It does not submit bids, calculate bid prices, write bid documents, or provide procurement-law advice.

How it works

Connect an MCP client to the Streamable HTTP endpoint at https://api.ausschreibungsagenten.de/mcp. The English-branded endpoint is available at https://api.tender-agents.com/mcp. After connection, an agent can call search and lookup tools against the indexed notices.

search_tenders accepts keyword, ISO-3 country, CPV, relevance, deadline-window and contract-value criteria. CPV searches support exact eight-digit codes and shorter numeric prefixes, so a prefix such as 45 covers the construction division. get_tender retrieves one notice by ID. summarize_tender returns a labelled German or English short form, and source_status reports each portal's last successful poll, counts and most recent error.

The countries tool reports indexed countries and their open-procedure counts. fulltext_search searches across notice text but requires a paid or otherwise authorized key. Every result links to the original notice, which remains the source of record.

Setup and configuration

No credentials are needed for the initial connection. For clients that accept an mcpServers configuration, use a Streamable HTTP entry such as:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ausschreibungsagenten": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://api.ausschreibungsagenten.de/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Code can add the endpoint with its HTTP transport command. Anonymous search_tenders access is limited to 60 requests per hour. An API key is sent as an HTTP Bearer token for higher limits and paid features; an X-API-Key header is not accepted as authentication.

The Ausschreibungsagenten Tender Search MCP server also has an open-data endpoint at https://api.ausschreibungsagenten.de/mcp/open-data. That surface is anonymous and read-only, but narrows data to five sources with supported operator interfaces. It does not expose full-text search, and summaries are only served when a cached version already exists.

Tools and capabilities

• Search open notices using structured procurement filters.
• Retrieve the complete record for a notice by ID.
• Generate or retrieve a German or English labelled summary.
• Inspect source freshness, polling results, counts and errors.
• List countries with indexed open-procedure counts.
• Search notice full text with the required key.

Limitations and notes

The Ausschreibungsagenten Tender Search MCP server is read-only. The index may not contain every notice, and source coverage can vary; use source_status to inspect the current state of each portal. Anonymous users can use the public preview, but new AI summaries and full-text search may require credentials. The linked original notice takes precedence over indexed content or generated summaries.